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The Ultimate Neutrino Detector
Adam Para, Fermilab
Experimental Seminar, SLAC,
March 28, 2006
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Outline
• Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber: a mature technology
• Neutrino oscillations opportunities with the NuMI beam
• Liquid Argon detector for the NuMI off-axis experiment
• ‘Other’ physics with the LAr detector
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Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
• Proposed in May 1976 at UCI (Herb Chen, FNAL P496). R&D enthusiastically endorsed by the PAC 50 L/100 L prototypes at UCI and Caltech, Fermilab prototype (Sam Segler/Bob Kephart) 10 ton prototype at Los Alamos (Herb Chen, Peter Doe)
• BARS spectrometer operating in Protvino (2 x 150 ton) (Franco Sergiampietri, S. Denisov)
• 25 years of pioneering efforts at CERN and INFN (Carlo Rubbia + countless others) + advances in technology 50 l prototype in WANF beam 3 ton prototype, 10 m3 prototype 300 ton detector operating in Pavia 600 ton under commissioning in LNGS
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Many years of intense R&D
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≈300‘000 kg LAr = T300
Leading to a large detector
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Inside and outside
Cryostat (half-module)
20 m
4 m
4 m
Readout electronics
View of the inner detector
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It works!
K+µ
+
e+
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Time Projection Chamber I
d
d
p
p
Ionization electrons paths
Drift
ionizing track
0
2
1
0( )
1
t T
t T
eF t B
e
A
A: signal amplitude (dE/dx)1 : rise time (track angle, diffusion)2: fall time (front-end electronics) B : baseline
Uniform electric field:
(t-T0) = vdrift * (x-xwire)
a 2D projection ‘only’
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TPC II: the second/(third?) coordinate
d
d
p
p
Ionization electrons paths
Drift
ionizing track
• A ‘traditional’ TPC: a set of pads behind the sense wire.
• Liquid Argon: add a plane(s) of grids in front of the collection wires
• Arrange the electric fields/wire spacing for a total transparency [Bunneman, Cranshaw,Harvey, Can. J. Res. 27 (1949) 191]
• Detect the signal induced by passing electrons, thus giving additional coordinates [Gatti, Padovini, Quartapelle,Greenlaw,Radeka IEEE Trans. NS-26 (2) (1979) 2910]
• Signals are strongly correlated: the arrival time and charge (module electronics noise)
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TPC III: Induction wires signal in real life
d
d
p
p
Ionization electrons paths
Drift
ionizing track
Front-end electronics/pulse shaping determines the actual waveform: room for optimization
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Front-end electronics issues
• Signal to noise: Signal = 5,500 e * d (in mm) JFET, shaping time ~ 1sec: ENC = 500 + 2.6 C (C –detector
capacitance)• Optimize detector design (wire spacing, cable length)• Better technology? SiGe? Bipolar?
• Cold vs warm (reliability vs feed-throughs, cables, noise)
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Signal size: how many electrons per 1 cm of a track?
• (dE/dx)mip = 2.13 MeV/cm, Wion = 23.6 eV• (dQ/dx)0 = 90000 e/cm• (dQ/dx)measured = R(dQ/dx)0
• R – recombination factor: Electric field Ionization density scintillation
• Experiment: (dQ/dx) ~ 55,000 e/cm@400-500 V/m
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Drifting electrons over long distance (3m)?
• Electron mobility 500 cm2/Vs
• Vdrift = f(E). Use E= 500 V/cm HV across the drift gap = 150 kV Vdrift = 1.55 mm/sec
tdrift = 2msec
• Diffusion? Diffusion coefficient, D=4.8 cm2/s d
2= 2Dt = 9.6t, d= 1.4 mm for 3 m drift
• Number of collisions/sec ~1012
2x109 collisions along the longest path ‘none’ of them must ‘eat’ an electron Concentration of electronegative (O2) impurities < 10-10
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Measuring argon purity below 0.1 ppb ?
• Best commercial O2 gauge: least count 0.2 ppb (not bad at all, but not good enough)
• How do you know that there are no other impurities, not detectable with your purity ,monitors, which absorb electrons (remember MarkII? )
• Electron lifetime detector Carugno,Dainese,Pietropaolo,Ptohos NIM A292 (1990) 580:
Extract electrons from a cathode Drift over a certain distance Measure charge along the path
0( )t
Q t Q e
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Argon purification: liquid and gas phase
• Re-circulate liquid/gaseous argon through standard Oxysorb/Hydrosorb filters (R20 Messers-Griesheim GmBH)
• ICARUS T600 module: 25 Gar m3/hour/unit 2.5 Lar m3/hour
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Argone purity/electron lifetime in real life ?
• Impurities concentration is a balance of Purification speed c
Leaks in(t) Outgassing A, B
• For a T600 module: asymptotic purity/lifetime > 13 msec
0
0
( ) ( )
( )
(1 / )
o
in Bc
ut in
dNt t
dtN At
t t
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Argon purity, lessons for a very large detector
• Long electron lifetimes (~10ms)/drift distances (>3m) appear achievable with commercial purification systems
• The main source of impurities are the surfaces exposed to the gaseous argon
• Increasing the ratio of liquid volume to the area of gaseous contact helps (dilution)
• Increasing the ratio of cold/warm surfaces helps (purification)
• Material selection/handling (high vacuum technology) is the key
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In the meantime..
Neutrino Physics has become a major source of excitement/surprises:• Neutrinos have mass. First glimpse of physics beyond the Standard Model• Neutrino mixing. Why so different from quark mixing??• CP violation in the lepton sector?? Origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry
in the Universe??Neutrino experiments will be a significant component of our future physics
programHint: we have a (super) beam.
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What do we want to know AD2006 ?
1
2
3
?
e
sB B
B B B
B B B
1. Neutrino mass pattern: This ? Or that?
2. Electron component of 3 (sin2213)
3. Complex phase of s(?) CP violation in a neutrino sector (?) baryon number of the universe
2
1
3
mass
“Normal” mass hierarchy
1
2
3
“Inverted” mass hierarchy
m2atm
m2sun
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Off-axis NuMI Experiment
NuMI neutrino beam: exists
since Feb. 2005
Off-axis ‘narrow band’ beams minimize NC background
•NuMI: intense neutrino () beam from Fermilab to Minnesota
•Initial motivation: precise determination of m2. First results this Thursday!
•‘Current’ motivation: e appearance experiment
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NuMI Opportunity
• Two amplitudes contribute
• One amplitude proportional to 13
• Relative phase, CP violating, changes sign from neutrinos to antineutrinos
• Matter effects have different sign for different mass hierarchies
2
23 13 23 23 13 23 13
2 2 223 23 31
2 2 2 213 13 23 12 12
11 1
1
13
2 cos
:
sin sin sin
cos cos sin 2 sin
1.27;
sin sin( ), 2,3
2
e
ijij
ii i
i
P A A P P P P
where
P
P
m Lin matter
E
aL iaL
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Untangling the physics
• Experiment measures two numbers: Pnu and Pnubar
• Distance from the origin: 13
• Distance from the diagonal: CP violation and mass hierarchy
• All effects of the same order
• Ambiguities possible if 13 small
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Physics potential of the NuMI beam (Mena+Parke,hep-ph/0505202)
• To first order the physics potential of an off-axis experiment is determined by a product: NpxMx
• Possible detectors: Liquid Scintillator calorimeter (NOvA) – = 0.24 Liquid Argon TPC (FLARE) – = 0.9
• Three scenarios: S/M/L
S 30 kton NOvA 8 ktonFLARE
M 30 kton NOvA + Proton Driver
40 kton FLARE
L 40 kton FLARE + Proton Driver
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A Quest for sin2213
• Dependence on mass hierarchy and CP phase precludes unambiguous interpretation of a possible null result in terms of a limit on sin2213.
• Limits of 1x10-2 (2x10-3) achievable with S (L) detectors
but it offers an increase of sensitivity beyond 10-4 level ! (some luck required)
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Real Challenges: Mass Hierarchy and CP violation
• Required: sin2213>0.01 + favorable value of .
• Required amount of luck diminishes as the size of the experiment/beam intensity increases
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Experimental Challenge
• Maximize MxWhere:
– M – detector mass– – efficiency for identification of e CC events
• While maintaining >20/ to ensure NC bckg < 0.5 e CC bckg)Where is the rejection factor for NC events with observed
energy in the signal region• Why is it hard to achieve high
Y-distribution – electron energies ranging from 0 to E
Low(er) electron energies emitted at large angles• Why is it hard to achieve high
0’s produced in the hadronic shower, early conversions and/or overlap with charged hadrons
Coherent 0 production
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e identification in LAr TPC
• Good particle identification using purely topological information
• Excellent spatial granularity an important asset
• High detection efficiency. The key: possibility to identify high-y events (low energy electrons at large angles)
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Good NC background rejection
• Very fine longitudinal sampling: gamma conversions clearly separable from the primary vertex (often)
• Very good transverse graularity: gamma conversions clearly separable from charged tracks (often)
• Very good energy resolution: gamma conversions identifiable through dE/dx at the origin (usually)
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Detector Performance
Blind scan of fully simulated detector (GEANT 3):• electron neutrino CC identification efficiency = 81+-7%• while NC background < 20% of the intrinsic nue component of
the beam
Questions:• can one build such a detector?• can one afford such a detector?
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Legacy of ICARUS (and other R&D efforts)
• One can drift electrons in argon over distance of several meters in argon purified with the standard commercial purifiers
• HV systems (power supply, noise filter, feedthrough, field shaping cage) can be made to operate reliably with voltages up to 150 kV
• Low noise electronics can be built (commercial!) and operated with adequate S/N ratio for detector capacitances up to ~ 600 pF for signals at the level of 15,000 electrons
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Challenge of Scaling up ICARUS ?• ICARUS modules ‘work’. If you want a bigger detector why not build a
necessary number of modules??
Not an optimal detector
Expensive
• Large detector concept:
A single cryogenic tank (~thousand tanks operational world-wide, excellent safety record)
industrial scale high performance argon purification
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Liquid Argon as a commodity
• Byproduct of air liquefaction • Annual production ~ 1,000,000 tons/year (mostly at the
coasts, East Chicago) (tied to oxygen demand for steel production)
• Delivery: truck (20 t) or railroad car (70 t)• Cost (delivered) $0.60/kg
G. Mullholland
US Argon Markets
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
1
Welding
Other Metal Fab
Stainless Steel
Other Primary Metals
Electronics
Lighting
Other
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Cryogenic storage tanks: a competitive industry. Example:
CB&I takes a total systems approach for low-temperature and cryogenic facilities as this results in the most operationally efficient and cost effective design for the owner. The efficiencies result from the storage solution, liquefaction and/or revaporizing systems design and the terminal facilities design all being considered together during the design and construction planning.
Design and construction of these facilities requires CB&I's traditional core competencies in steel structure design, fabrication, welding and field construction management combined with specialized knowledge in thermodynamics and in the physical properties of pure gases, fluid flow, heat transfer, chemical engineering and simply construction "know-how".
Refigerated storage tanks are highly specialized structures as they are storing liquids at temperatures as low as -450°F. Due to the extremely low temperatures and the volatile nature of these gases, the storage tanks all utilize special insulation and can be single wall, double wall or complete concrete containment tanks. CB&I utilizes a patented Horizontal Foamed In Place insulation on single wall tanks that provides the best performing and lowest cost solution for storing the less intensive cold applications.
Cryogenic storage is for temperatures less than -150°F and requires the use of special materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, and 5% and 9% nickel for the inner tank shell. These tanks are double wall with special perlite insulation in-between the two shells, and often have some form of concrete containment for safety reasons.
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Competitive Industry•CBI•Technodyne•Kawasaki•Mitsubishi•Hyundai•Nissan
Refrigeration? And industrial problem too..Boil-off rate – 0.05%/d (25 t/day)
100 t/day argon re-liquifier, 1.8MW (Cosmodyne):
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Thermal analysis of a 50 kT liquid argon tank
Zhijing Tang, PPD
Rough analogy: big boiling pot
Vapor bubbles at the surface only (hydrostatic pressure)
Total heat leak: 49 kW
Maximal temperature diference Tmax = 0.1oC
Tempereture difference over most of the volume 0.01oC
Maximum flow velocity: 7.7 cm/s
Heat leak through a signal feed-through chimney 48W/chimney
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Fundamental parameter: signal/noise ratio
• Signal Attenuated by impurities ( argon purity, drift
distance) Shared between wires ( wire spacing) Produced: 55,000 electrons/cm of the track
• Noise JFET, shaping time ~ 1sec: ENC = 500 + 2.6 C (C –
detector capacitance) electrons
FLARE design: • wire spacing 5 mm• electron lifetime > 10 msec• short signal cables, C<700 pF signal > 22,000 electrons. noise < 2500 electrons
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FLARE Detector
(Model by Chuck Grimm)
6 Wire Sectors, each containing 6 Wire Planes
7 CathodePlanes
Trusses(schematic)
Inner
Tank
Active volumeDiameter: 40mHeight: 30m
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FLARE detector, 2005
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Field shaping in the drift region
• A set of field shaping tubular electrodes grading the potential from 150 kV to 0V
• 5 cm steps : 2.5kV step 29 ‘picture frames’ per drift volume. Copy of the ICARUS stetup. Likely on overkill.
L. Bartoszek
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Wire chambers • Very large up 30x40 m• No gain, collection/induction only: thick wires, 150 stainless • Wire spacing 5 mm• 6 planes (UVX XVU) UV +- 30o from vertical• Wire tension ~10N, gravitational. Wires supported every 3
m • Local loadad on the supporting truss 1.2t/m. 50 tons for the
longest chamber. • Total number of planes 36• Total number of wires ~250,000• Longest wire 35 m• Wire capacitance 450-500 pF• Signal ~ 25,000 electrons, Noise ~ 2,000 e• Design S/N: 12. Improvements possible
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Very Large Scale Industrial Methods and Components wherever
possible
• Reliability ad robustness
• Safety of construction and operation
• Fault-proof and fault tolerant design
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Initial purification system
Design throughput: 200 t/day
Oxygen load @1ppm delivered argon purity : 200 g/day. May be more. Probably will be less..
24/7 operation for 9 month
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Main tank:28 t/hour re-circulation and purification system
Phase I: initial purge – 100-200 tons of LAr (~ 2 weeks) (vessel not evacuated)
• Very rapid volume exchange (several hours) => rapid purification
• Main issue: very large oxygen capacity required
Milestone: achieve >10 ms lifetime before continuing the fill process
Phase II: filling• Purity level determined by balance of the
filtering vs. impurities introduced with the new argon
Phase III: operation• Low rate of volume exchange (74 days)• Removal (mainly) of the impurities introduced
with argon • Balance between purification and out-gassing• In this phase out-gassing of tank walls, cables
and other materials becomes a visible factor, although still very small.
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50 kton detector
• Double wall cryogenic tank: H=30m, D=40 m • Nitrogen re-liquefier of the boil-off• 35,000 m3of liquid argon• 3 meter drift distance• 7 cathode planes @ 150 kV• 6 wire chambers, 6 planes of wires each
(collection only, no gain, no high electric field) 225,000 wires
• Readout electronics • Commercial re-circulation/purification system• DAQ
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Initial Engineering Studies Cost
15 kt, $M 50 kt, $M
Cryostat(tank) 19.4 32.1
Liquid Argon 12 37.0 (trucks)
Cryogenics/purification 4.0 6.5
HV/field shaping 4.0 5.7
Wire Chambers 4.0 (5.0)
Electronics , cabling 4.0 5.0
Data Acquisition 5.0 5.0
Site - ???
TOTAL 52.4 +’Site’
96.3 + ‘Site’
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Challenge: Make a Convincing Case
• Are there any elements of technology which are not really known or demonstrated, or does one need some further R&D?
• What is the best way to collect/present the wealth of information available from industry/ICARUS/others
• What is a realistic, fully loaded, cost estimate of a (~fully) engineered detector?
• What are the risks associated with the construction and operation of a large cryogenic detector?
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Possible (?) ScenarioPhase I: 15 kton detector• superior to the ‘S’ detector of Mena/Parke• factor 12 bigger than the ICARUS module under
construction• validation of LNG tank-based detector concept
Phase II: 50 kton (or larger) detector (‘M’)
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Data rates
• 250,000 channels read out @ 2 Mhz • A single time frame (‘event’) ~ 1 G ‘pixels’ – GIGApixel
camera• Take 40 bits/channel => 0.25 Tbyte/sec• Most of the pixels are empty. Rate is dominated by
cosmics. Cluster finding/zero suppression in FE electronics: factor ~ 1000
• Data rate 0.25 Gbytes/secCase E(asy): Neutrino beam• Need to read out 2 msec time window (10 sec + drift
time)• Data rate 0.5 Mbytes/sec, 5 Tbytes/yearCase C(hallenging): free running, continuously active detector• Need LHC-class DAQ system• 2.5 Pbytes/year data storage system• Grid-like analysis (SETI, Prime search?)
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• Elastic scattering (ES)
• Electron-neutrino absorption (CC)
• Electron-antineutrino absorption (CC)
• K*/Cl* nuclear states identified by electromagnetic
nuclear cascades (energy resolution!)
Liquid Argon: the detector to differentiate supernova neutrino species
(e)+0.15 ( + )(e)+0.34 ( + )
x e x e
e40Ar 40K* e
(e)Q≈8 MeV
(e) Q=5.885 MeV
e40Ar 40Cl* e
x e x e
A. Bueno,I. Gil-Botella, A. Rubbia hep-ph/ 0307222
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Supernova 201xA?
• These event rates are for 3 kt ICARUS
• Multiply by a factor 17 or so for NuMI off axis good measurement of energy and time distribution from not-too-distant supernova
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Are protons forever?
Q: Why do protons do not decay?A1: We do not knowA2: Because of baryon number conservation
Notice: A1 == A2, but A2 sounds better
SuperK: 50 ktons detector, several years of operation. Very stringent limits. Is there anything to add, short of a major increase of mass ?
A: it depends on the postulated decay modes /supermultiplet assignment at the GUT scale. Perhaps the dominant decay mode is into K? (Weak spot of water Cerenkov due to Cerenkov thresold)
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P-> K in LAr detector
• Real event in a real detector
• K incoming from outside
• Imagine this happening in the middle of a big detector volume
K+
+
e+
p K+ e_
p=425 MeV
Simulated event
K+µ+
e+
T600: Run 939 Event 46
K identification: dE/dxK//e decay chain. Good energy determination from rangeHigh efficiency, very low background
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Proton decay, expected limits: ICARUS
This is just an example: it takes ~17 kton years to reach the current limit of sensitivity
Low backgrounds, detailed kinematical reconstruction allow for a positive identification even with very small signal events
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Proton decay with surface detector? Nuts??
•Exquisite spatial and temporal resolution/granularity (1 gigapixel x 1 msec•Complete history of all incoming ‘stuff’ (3D movie)•Very large volume (self-shielding for a major fraction of a detector, systematic checks, etc..)•Primarily a computing/data storage problem (fun problem to have)•Most serious source of a problem: nAr -> K, decays invisibly. Investigating… (Ed Kearns)•T0 ??
• T0 is an attribute of an object, not of an ‘event’• cathode/wire plane crossing determines a T0• dE/dx from a small section of a track determines the drift distance
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Challenges
• Are there any elements of technology which are not really yet demonstrated, or does one need some further R&D?
• What is a realistic cost estimate of a (~fully) engineered detector?• Accelerator neutrino experiment is given, how realistic is a
perspective of a surface-based nucleon decay/ supernova experiment?
• A very real possibility of a major savings in money and much shorter timescale for an experiment
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Conclusions• Newly developed technology of liquid
argon imaging calorimetry offers a very attractive (and diversified) physics opportunities to establish/enrich our physics program
• We can make a Great Leap Forward by learning and using the technology developed by/for ICARUS
• 50 kton class Lar calorimeter in northern Minnesota/southern Canada is a very attractive avenue to take a lead in studies of neutrino oscillations in the US and establish this technology